Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Divination -- India.
Seasons -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise used for contemplation and consultation for the purpose of divination through the reading of signs related to the changing of the seasons.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-4, [5], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti māsapraveśalānādgrahāṇāṃ dvādaśabhāvaphalāni samāptāni // śubham // gurau saṃvat 1910 // śake // 1775 // arkaghnāgatavatsarājanibhayukmāsaigataiścāpiyuk // hyunānaṃ dahṛtāvaśeṣatabha[??] śāmuddik // (f. 5r).
Dated saṃvat 1910 and śaka 1775 (1853) (f. 5r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4888 (UP 660).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 660

OCLC:

861359717